The game is being developed by Tim Schafer, whose work history is littered with critically adored classics such as point and click adventure The Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango and curious platformer Psychonauts.

“Having an official release date is awesome,” Schafer exclaimed. “And how cool is it that EA threw down the dough to have the name of an entire month changed to Rocktober?”

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